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    Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair

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    12/18/09

    In reply to Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair
    so what do these guys do, exactly? They sit around some abandoned building and talk about how they want to control the world one day?
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair
    In the words of Bette Davis, what a dump.

    (Note to Gabe: I tried repeatedly to upload a LOLDavis, but kept getting errors).
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair
    The only "Bonesman" I know does really get up and walk out of the room when it is mentioned. He's a sweet old fella otherwise.
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair
    He is clearly not in the actual tomb, which makes this video pretty boring.

    Do people really believe that the inside of S&B would be such a dump? It's not like these kids can't afford nice shit.
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair
    That's basically exactly what I expected the inside of the Tomb to look like: the college kid idea of a secret society's headquarters, influenced in equal parts by Hollywood and laziness. The statue and wall carvings were genuinely creepy tho.
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair
    Eh, watched the whole video thinking a bad version of "Blair Witch Project". However, someone did leave a clue. The music at the end was done prior to 2007, and used extensively on video's done in World of Warcraft for final bosses, i.e., first Onxyia kill in the US, around 2004/2005. Punked.
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair
    This is a deceptive headline.

    He didn't break in. The video shows the back court area where you have barbecues and an occasional outdoor party (when The Game takes place in New Haven). Then he walks over to a side storage area.

    The idea that S&B rules the world is a hoot. These days, it's just another aspect of the meritocracy.
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    12/14/09

    @smithhimself: The meritocracy? Are you serious? Legacy is the most important factor in getting into Skull and Bones. What possible merit can "having a dad who was in our club" possibly recognize?
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    12/14/09

    @Freddie DeBoer: The merit of having been the fastest sperm?
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    12/14/09

    @#c17566103

    Get a list of those who were tapped for S and B this year. It's not a Legacy dominated list. Or just read some of the names: Aniket Shah, Kezia Kamenetz, Rachel Sam, Lillian Chen, Kensho Watanabe...etc.

    They're all going to be corporate lawyers and private equity clones.
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    12/14/09

    @smithhimself: and then make cute legacies themselves. It's the circle of life.
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    12/14/09

    @Freddie DeBoer: not really. the reason that we know the names of so many bonesmen, as opposed to the members of other societies, is that they sued the bones class that tapped women in the 90's; their names were made public in court documents. now, positions in bones go to leaders from various campus communities, including artists, journalists, athletes. it's actually pretty formulaic. my roommate was a legacy (dad was bones with w., appointed to federal office by bush sr.) who was tapped by some more obscure societies but not bones. anyway, i always said that the idea of a secret society, in which each member scratches the other's back, is antithetical to meritocracy, but bones has tried to run itself like a meritocracy for some time. i suspect--and the members who filed suit probably shared this suspicion--that this meritocratic ethos will do put an end to bones in a few generations. i mean, if you believe that you were tapped because you were the editor of the daily news and not because of your lineage, why would you hire a fellow bonesman for a position over a more qualified candidate later in life? you wouldn't. bones is dying. good riddance
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair
    Members of Penn State's Skull & Bones society - very original - would act obnoxiously secretive and lie to friends for months as they were tapping the top athletes, scholars, etc. ... only to round out the year with a S&B bar tour, complete with t-shirts that said "Shhh...". I kid you not.
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair
    Sigh. I went to a state school in Kentucky. The closest thing we had to secret societies were 400-level Physics classes.
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    12/14/09

    @Awesome X: Same here.
    Some of the math classes were totally bewildering.
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    12/14/09

    @Awesome X: Sorry you didn't get into state schools in Virginia. We had secret societies a plenty. And other weird old-south B.S.
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    12/14/09

    @Awesome X: I went to a state school in NY. All fraternities were banned. And our only sports team was in ultimate frisbee.
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    12/14/09

    @oneninesevenfour: Whoa... weird how? Like it's one of those remote regions that has yet to get news of the emancipation proclamation, or something less sinister, like eating boiled nuts?
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair
    Don't a lot of colleges have secret societies?

    At Chapel Hill, we had the "Order of Gimghoul" and when I pulled them up in Wikipedia to get the proper spelling, I found the entry was linked to a whole list.

    BTW: I wasn't a member, but the grounds of their "castle" was a good, private place to smoke a bowl.
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair
    While the hit-and-run was a couple weeks after the the kid was kicked out, I don't think the Dauphin had anything to do with it. Just random bad luck for Branford '11 that semester.
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair
    Is that a crack vial?

    Are you sure this wasn't The Carter?
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair
    I had a secret society once. I was five. Me and my buddy were friends, and no one was allowed to know, even though they already did.
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    12/14/09

    @benjwah004:

    We had one too, rival spy networks of about 4 kids each. We had secret documents that we would try to steal from each other... crude architectural drawings, prototype for an improved spy ring, codenamed "grin." If we captured infiltrators, traitors, or double agents we would interrogate them at a card table under the glare of a bare light bulb. (Yes, bad resonance) Two of the kids actually ended up working for intelligence agencies.
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    12/14/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:
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    12/14/09

    @pureblarney: Oh no.. girls and boys were equal in our world.
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair
    You should pretty much automatically not pay attention to a person who creates graffiti in chalk.

    *cough* de la vega
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    12/14/09

    In reply to Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale 'Dauphin' Releases Video of Skull & Bones' Secret Lair
    Dolphin attacks are on the rise.
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